Taking eggs from the father?

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yayfish24
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Taking eggs from the father?

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Its been awhile since my l007 vampires have spawned and on Dec 26th I saw a good size group of eggs in the one males cave. The last batch consisted of 32 young ones. Ive left the cave alone after seeing the eggs so the father wouldn't get scared and eat them. Well tonight I decided to look into the cave and it seemed very few young ones were in there. I decided to take the babies so I could at least get a few to survive. I ended up with only 6 little ones. Should I attempted to hatch the eggs on my own next time or do you think the father is just having a hard time raising them? I'd like to get as many young to survive as I can.
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yayfish24 wrote:Its been awhile since my l007 vampires have spawned and on Dec 26th I saw a good size group of eggs in the one males cave. The last batch consisted of 32 young ones. Ive left the cave alone after seeing the eggs so the father wouldn't get scared and eat them. Well tonight I decided to look into the cave and it seemed very few young ones were in there. I decided to take the babies so I could at least get a few to survive. I ended up with only 6 little ones. Should I attempted to hatch the eggs on my own next time or do you think the father is just having a hard time raising them? I'd like to get as many young to survive as I can.
On the fourth day in male fish eggs can be out ahead of time, artificial incubation, the premise is to must have technical peel shell to darling, so can have more baby fish left
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